This could be helpful: http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync%40lists.samba.org/msg15341.html
But if you have root access and are backing up an entire filesystem, you could remount with noatime option, for example: mount -o remount,noatime /foo rsync -ax /foo/* /bar mount -o remount,atime /foo Regards. Jose Manuel Lara Bauche - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]